It was made into a marvelous film, with the actors of the
Royal Shakespearean Company. The female lead is
Glenda Jackson in her film debut, who would go on to a very great fame in films like
The Rainbow, and
Women in Love, from
D.H. Lawrence, and
Sunday, Bloody Sunday, all favourites of mine.
Patrick Magee, who played the Marquis de Sade, went on to play the man who was Alex's nemesis in A Clockwork Orange--he was the husband of the woman Alex raped in his salad days. He played the Beethoven that drove Alex to jump out the window.
Some. but not all of this information may be found at www.eonline.com/Facts/Movies/0,60,35489,00.html
During my years at the University of Toronto, this was a favourite film for the repertory film houses. It was our practice to go to this, and other movies many times--if we had been examined on this, at that time, none of us would have failed.